Random Reflections on Martin Luther King Day

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"Per capita income in Mississippi [traditionally
the
poorest state] was 36% of the national average in
1940; in 1999, it was 72 percent, well below the
national average, but given the lower cost of living
here, a level recognizably American."

King wasn`t a saint. But he was a
hero in this important process.

Martin Luther King Day is the least
popular federal holiday—only
29 percent of employers give their workers the day
off. Not many non-blacks care. This upsets
African-Americans. Black comedian
Chris Rock says, "You gotta be pretty racist to
not want a day off from work."

To fix this, we should move Martin
Luther King Day to the Friday before Labor Day to
commemorate his
"I Have a Dream" speechat the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 …
and, to give Americans a summer-ending four-day weekend.

(It`s not as if a lot of business
gets done on that day anyway.)

Then even the Grand Kleagle would
be demanding Martin Luther King Day off from his foreman
down at the
hog-rendering plant.

I can picture the Rev. Al easing
into his Barcalounger and flipping on his plasma screen:

"Let`s
see if there`s anything good on television … Oh boy,
another
Harriet Tubman documentary [CLICK] … Uh oh, a
panel discussion on
W.E.B. Dubois [CLICK] … Hey, it`s that
groundhog,
Pungobungy Pete, or whatever they call him … and he
can see his shadow! Now, that`s great TV!"

The raw cultural muscle of
liberalism is awesome to behold. Getting rid of
Jim Crow was about the last good thing liberals
accomplished … and they will never ever let us
forget it, no matter how badly they must bore us with
their
smug reminiscences.

Despite the ho-hum attitude of most
American grown-ups toward Martin Luther King Day,
children are furiously
indoctrinated into the cult in the schools. MLK Day
is a bigger deal than [furtive look, whisper]
"Christmas."

For example, my son was just
ordered to write a letter to
Martin Luther King. This sixth grader had to
describe two things he`d done that he was especially
proud of.

These were disasters for the
black community that only grew worse all the way up
until the mid-1990s.

Our crack squad of researchers here
at VDARE.com has found
no evidence that King took a stance of any kind on
the immigration act of 1965, which opened the floodgates
to the foreigners who have done so much damage to the
economic standing of African-Americans.

So he shouldn`t be blamed for that.

But his successors in the
black leadership have blithely continued to support
mass immigration despite its impact on their
constituents` wages.

If conservatives want a
minority hero whose views on current controversies have
been vastly distorted by his admirers, labor leader
Cesar Chavez is a much better choice.

During the prime of his
career, Chavez
fought illegal immigration, which furnished
strikebreaking scabs. He advocated anti-illegal
immigration vigilantism and even offered his United Farm
Worker staffers to the Border Patrol as auxiliaries.

Now, of course, Chavez,
a third generation American citizen, is always portrayed
as the patron saint of the La Reconquista.